<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: oooyay</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=oooyay</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:45:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=oooyay" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oooyay in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been building my own IRC client: <a href="https://github.com/matt0x6F/irc-client/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/matt0x6F/irc-client/</a> (#cascade-irc on Libera)<p>The client focuses on extensibility, IRCv3 compatibility, and a modern UI and UX. I am realizing that IRCv3 is capable of being built on top of though, so I may start incorporating external features outside of the protocol itself.<p>Some friends and I have also been building a start up a month and the latest one to come out of it is medspa software: <a href="https://spaarc.net" rel="nofollow">https://spaarc.net</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:58:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533880</link><dc:creator>oooyay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533880</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oooyay in "Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not even just digital; much of the world is shifting from high trust to low trust as well: <a href="https://social.desa.un.org/sites/default/files/inline-files/World%20Social%20Report_Dec2024.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://social.desa.un.org/sites/default/files/inline-files/...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:47:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357549</link><dc:creator>oooyay</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357549</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by oooyay in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The statute requires that a person <i>knowingly</i> circulate a false report. Combs says she was repeating what people told her. Gregory says she should have verified it with the hospitals first<p>It would be a violation of HIPAA for a medical system to disclose that to a private individual. The State Health Services or TCEQ would need to conduct that investigation and ask those questions. Both of those are state level agencies and would require significant momentum for a small town like Trinidad to trigger their attention. Ironically, it sounds like her social media post and the Streisand effect around it have triggered a TCEQ boil water notice and (likely) an investigation.<p>It is absolutely bizarre for a municipal or county law enforcement agency to take interest in this kind of thing. Texas Rangers and federal authorities should be looking at what triggered her arrest and whatever investigation came before it. That's assuming Greg Abbot, Dan Patrick, or Ken Paxton haven't totally compromised them at this point.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://github.com/gabinante/ye-olde-rfc">https://github.com/gabinante/ye-olde-rfc</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48217803">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48217803</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
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<p>What's really interesting in this comment chain is an observation I've expressed a lot more lately. When someone knows an LLM was involved they raise their expectations. I do it too in my own work and I have to remind myself things like "this bug would've also likely occurred with a human working at this level of complexity." The real question is did the operator arbitrarily and knowingly increase the level of complexity or is it appropriate for the task.</p>
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<p>There are two simultaneous problems that I've come to understand with datacenters and the people that live in their proximity:<p>1. Somehow the public is always left holding the bag for increased transmission costs despite the cause of the increase being a single (or short list) of outliers.<p>2. The residential public, as is tradition, is always asked to scale down for industrial demand.<p>How can we imagine expanding a system that results in both of these outcomes? That, to me, seems to be the thing to fix first.</p>
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<p>There's also another animal/dog documentary that I've watched recently that puts a finer point on this realization. The secret to survival and evolution is <i>cooperation</i>. For instance, not all dogs evolved the same way in this documentary. Some were more nuturing, some were more problem solving. For the focus of the documentary the challenge was to match the dog with a human that had a need they could address.<p>I think somewhat egotistically humans underappreciate how we have also been goaded by our "pets" into our own evolutionary journey. Most of the subjects of that documentary would not be alive if it were not for those dogs.</p>
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<p>I'm not sure this is really true anymore and it ignores the reality on the ground of "cheap areas". Often times cheap areas are underserved in a way that once you require or depend on a service that is baked into other higher cost of living areas your life becomes much more expensive than if you'd simply lived in a high cost of living area. There are many examples of this but hospitals in rural areas are one of my favorite examples. There used to be many of these but many people didn't realize they were all (or mostly) subsidized capital ventures. Many of them are closing now that the subsidy has ended. So, is that county land cheap? Yes, but when you have an incident where time matters your likelihood of being cooked goes up precipitously.</p>
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<p>I did read them but I interpreted the topic of this thread to be Anthropic's vague approach to compliance enforcement not specifically how claude -p is used and interpreted by Anthropic.</p>
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<p>> This feels really premature. The announcement was a week ago. The “this model is too powerful for the general public” sounds like marketing to me.<p>Anthropic was born out of the idea that they feel paternity over humanity. They believe by limiting access they are performing a necessary pillar of security in multiple facets.<p>I think it's up to the public, and articles like this are part of the public's voice, whether this belief is serious or not and secondarily whether it's okay to even posture this kind of belief since it inherently results in marginalizing the many and rewards an already very successful few.</p>
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<p>I plugged this question into Claude and told it to limit me to 10:<p>1. <i>Cancer patient banned mid-payment</i> — <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675740">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675740</a><p>2. <i>Hobbyist coder, VPN trigger, forms into void for 10+ months</i> — <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47286867">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47286867</a><p>3. <i>"Reinstated" but still locked out — two systems out of sync</i> — <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46007408">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46007408</a><p>4. <i>Banned for testing vision API</i> — <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39988137">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39988137</a><p>5. <i>Banned on first ever prompt ("What do you know about Hacker News?")</i> — <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39698788">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39698788</a><p>6. <i>Mass banning wave, some banned before first use</i> — <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39672765">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39672765</a><p>7. <i>Entire company banned without warning, thousands of users stranded</i> — <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42210199">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42210199</a><p>8. <i>Forced new account (no email change support) → immediately banned</i> — <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46339741">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46339741</a><p>9. <i>Banned for scaffolding a Claude.md file, support email never arrives</i> — <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46723384">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46723384</a><p>10. <i>$81 billing overcharge, human promised, month of silence</i> — <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693679">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693679</a></p>
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<p>They are potentially now, but when I lived there (~a decade ago) they were not and this was the battle we were fighting as neighborhoods and communities. At the height of it they couldn't take your drivers license but the company could file an injunction preventing you from renewing your drivers license over civil penalties.</p>
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<p>Both of these camera systems also usually come with a kangaroo civil court of sorts. Last time I looked at red light camera distribution in Texas it was also fairly obvious that they were only installing them in poorer areas.<p>These systems were largely disliked bipartisanly because of those factors.</p>
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<p>> Its not your responsibility to ensure transitive importers of your library are on the latest version of Go. Don't make that decision for them.<p>and yet the Go maintainers did not include or build (in the future) a tool that determined the minimum version of Go that your application can be compiled in.</p>
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<p>I mean, kind of, but they're able to be cached easily and inexpensively in a way that kind of defies the intrinsic values behind steganography.</p>
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<p>I'd like to adjust your metaphor.<p>As a woodworker who owns both hand tools and power tools, I don't feel bad when I spend most of a project cutting the repetitive pieces with a motorized saw. I also don't feel like a snob because I prefer certain hand saws under certain circumstances.<p>To me, the metaphor is pretty solid for coding LLMs. A motorized saw, to anyone that's used them, takes away all the pain and complexity of using a hand saw for the same work, but it also introduces its own complexity and pain. There's also things that stay consistent: I still find myself transferring or measuring certain ways, I still have to brace the piece, I still need jigs (albeit different ones).</p>
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<p>"Shift-left" was a general term that occurred in the systems engineering / devops space – I'm not surprised to see it used in a security context now. More or less, about a decade ago most systems engineers were recruited into the industry without any application software engineering skills and that became a drag on organizations trying to scale. It was about moving testing, devops, security, etc into the software engineering role and attempting to consolidate systems engineering into SWE roles. It was a part of the larger "devops movement".</p>
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<p>> I have not really found anything that shakes these people down to their core. Any argument or example is handwaved away by claims that better use of agents or advanced models will solve these “temporary” setbacks. How do you crack them? Especially upper management.<p>You let them play out. Shift-left was similar to this and ultimately ended in part disaster, part non-accomplishment, and part success. Some percentage of the industry walked away from shift-left greatly more capable than the rest, a larger chunk left the industry entirely, and some people never changed. The same thing will likely happen here. We'll learn a lot of lessons, the Overton window will shift, the world will be different, and it will move on. We'll have new problems and topics to deal with as AI and how to use it shifts away from being a primary topic.</p>
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<p>Caveat that Kagi gates that repo such that it doesn't allow self-submissions so you're only going to see a chunk of websites that other people have submitted that also know about the Kagi repo.</p>
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<p>I find it amusing that your last comment is preaching to someone about what politics is and isn't.<p>Your politics are clear. You have no problem with the modern Republican party embracing authoritarianism and fascism. In fact, you see it as an opportunity to erode trust in or otherwise destroy the institution responsible for regulating signals in the US. The very thing that makes it so that planes can safely fly or that things in space must respect terrestrial networks without disruption.<p>That is your politics, just an embarrassing set of politics. Not even a green account. Shame on you.</p>
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